Isaac Asimov(click on names to see more mathematical fiction
by the same author)

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Contributed by
"William E. Emba"

A scientist recounts how, stung by his former professor
hogging all the credit for figuring out a way to safely
light cigarettes and girlwatch at the same time, he and
a collaborator (using geometry and topology) beat him in
the race to read and girlwatch at the same time.

(For those not in the know, it is a parody of James Watson
THE DOUBLE HELIX.)